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Princeton University Gravity Initiative Spring Seminar Series
A Stable and Causal Model of Magnetohydrodynamics
The group plans to meet in person in the PGI space and lunch will be provided. The speaker, Jay Armas, will be remote.
Abstract: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a theory with a broad range of applications, from plasma physics to heavy-ion collisions and astrophysics. In this talk, I will show how methodologies in formal hydrodynamics allows to reformulate MHD in terms of symmetry considerations. In particular, I will show that MHD can be viewed as a theory of superfluidity and highlight its usefulness as a simpler way of keeping track of dissipative effects and equilibrium configurations. Based on this formulation, I will discuss a promising model of MHD and show that for a given toy model of a relativistic plasma it cures linear stability and causality issues typically inherent to relativistic hydrodynamics.